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1,000 detained in Turkey over suspected links to Gulen

Date: 2017-04-26 19:50:45 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:6786223

ANKARA, April 26 (MENA) - Turkish police launched simultaneous operations across the country on Wednesday, detaining more than 1,000 people with suspected links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, ABC News reported. Warrants were issued for the ....

Report: 7 wounded in Istanbul explosion inside van

Date: 2017-04-26 17:13:53 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:6786088

ANKARA, April 26 (MENA) - Turkey's state-run agency says an explosion inside a van carrying university students in Istanbul has wounded seven people, according to ABC News. The blast occurred Wednesday as the vehicle — a shuttle bus operated by a ....

US, Israel coordinate over Trump visit

Date: 2017-04-26 15:27:51 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:6785930

GAZA CITY, April 26 (MENA) - Israel and the United States are coordinating over a visit by US President Donald Trump to Israel next month, said Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on its website on Wednesday. A US delegation will arrive to Israel ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry urges international community to end Netanyahu policies

Date: 2017-04-26 11:05:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:6785165

RAMALLAH, April 26 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has urged the international community to end the policies of Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which has recently escalated aggression on Palestinian people and ....

Israel revives plan for 10,000 new homes in East Jerusalem

Date: 2017-04-26 10:56:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:6785153

RAMALLAH, April 26 (MENA) - Israel's Housing Ministry is bringing back plans for a new neighborhood in Jerusalem that falls outside of the 1967 borders and inside the West Bank, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Wednesday. The ....

Israeli court sentences female Palestinian minor to 10 years in jail

Date: 2017-04-26 08:47:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:6784870

RAMALLAH, April 26 (MENA) - An Israeli court sentenced a 17-year-old female Palestinian from Beit Safafa to 10 years in prison for committing a stabbing attack in the occupied Al Quds city. Malak Salman was arrested on February 9, 2016, over ....

Israel escalating measures against Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, says official

Date: 2017-04-26 08:47:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:6784890

RAMALLAH, April 26 (MENA) - The Israeli prisons' administration is escalating measures against Palestinian detainees who are on hunger strike, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said Wednesday. Most of those detainees have been placed ....

S. Korea pledges dlrs 4 mln humanitarian assistance to Yemen

Date: 2017-04-26 07:07:36 GMT - south korea - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:6784824

SEOUL, April 26 (MENA) - South Korea plans to provide dlrs 4 million in humanitarian assistance to war-torn Yemen this year and join international efforts to end the civil war there, Yonhap News Agency reported quoting the foreign ministry as saying ....

LCC: Daesh leader killed in raid on Deir Ezzor countryside

Date: 2017-04-26 06:52:06 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:6784780

DAMASCUS, April 26 (MENA) - The Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC) said a leading figure of Daesh terrorist group was killed in a raid carried out by the international coalition warplanes on Deir Ezzor countryside, Al Hurra news network ....

Israeli gunboat breaches Lebanese territorial waters

Date: 2017-04-25 22:54:34 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:6784535

BEIRUT, April 25 (MENA) - The Lebanese Army said Tuesday an Israeli gunboat violated the country's territorial waters off Ras al Naqoura to a distance of 260 meters for a period of seven minutes, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. The ....